A town built on racism is where Tafoya calls home.
A league famous for racism has been her beat for years.
Aside from the fact that it’s a terribly written article, the argument is incredibly weak. I’m sorry I wasted a few minutes of my day to read that.
I’m not surprised by your position. It seems Indiana (not you but the state) has a lot of problems with acknowledging basic racism throughout history. I had no idea. Indiana isn’t a state I think about often. But, several articles lately…
Just look at some of the arguments in the article. She can’t back a candidate that doesn’t want a focus on CRT (black candidate at that)? And the irony is that the city was originally founded by blacks and they were discriminated against in a time when nearly all blacks were in the US?
The author jumps around and just throws stuff at the wall to see what sticks.
Tafoya is just tired of the race obsession, as is the case with so many people in the US.
It doesn’t mean that you don’t teach about the nation’s history, good and bad. That has always been the case. It’s that you don’t focus on racism as the prism to view all aspects of society and apologize for your whiteness like that idiot actor from Breaking Bad just did.
I think it’s the fact that she lives in a town 85% white now, because blacks (who founded it) were forcefully kicked out. The fact that it happened all over the place then I am not sure really justifies it or deflates the irony.
The beneficiaries were always tired it. Hell, plantation owners were playing victim in the mid 1800s, too. Same type of folks blamed MLK and Malcolm X for “stirring things up.”
But, we are. Your political party is trying to literally remove any mention of race from textbooks and burning books outside
The attempted prevention of said topic has always been the case, for sure.
Easy to do when you’re the beneficiary of it. I’m not saying apologize for being white. That’s fucking ridiculous. But, simply acknowledging that yeah…we built this bitch on it and that’s a bit fucked up. Hell, I’m even up for eliminating affirmative action or all kinds of stuff if we need to. Apparently, something is not working. The 80% without a father thing just can’t be argued. But, pretending we don’t have institutional racism is dishonest I think. That’s what the bullshit CRT thing is over. Rufo created it and admitted publicly that he used CRT as a term for talking about race or racism in general and it’s not even fitting, but it worked for him. Now, we have people attacking school boards over a fake term (not applicable in this sense) over anything even related to racial history.
Some extreme examples, yes. I don’t agree with that approach at all.
But why change what we’ve been teaching all along? Why modify it now? Broader objectives, maybe?
I went to school in the 90’s and 2000’s and there was plenty of discussion at the time in my history classes about the abhorrent nature of slavery and the Civil Rights battle. Nothing was whitewashed and nothing was defended regarding racism.
Why do we need to up the ante and talk about race 100% of the time and apologize for things that happened well before our time. It’s insane. The whole white guilt thing is a disease.
Agreed, though I went in the 80s and early 90s, college in the mid and late 90s. We learned quite a bit, but right now, CRT is the boogeyman and anything related to race is being eliminated. That’s my issue. It’s not that race is being MORE emphasized, it’s that they’re trying to eliminate it all together in history class.
I don’t think you do. I just think acknowledging some basic history is all I’m talking about. All I hear is CRT this and CRT that, I don’t want my kids being taught CRT. Well, they’re not. It’s a college level class and specific to law. Christopher Rufo wrapped all race talk into CRT and threw it out to right wingers to attack their school boards over.
There’s no thinking, it is dishonest. I honestly feel that because some people don’t experience racism, they believe it’s dead or it no longer exists. Just because you don’t experience it, doesn’t mean it’s not happening around you. It does. It’s there. Is it much better than what it once was? Absolutely, but to say there is no longer systemic, institutional, built-in racism, is not the truth. Do I cry racism every time something doesn’t go my way? No, I take every situation and base it on its own merit. That said, when it’s a spade, I will call it a spade.
Warden is one of those racism fighters you know
Delusional fucking meltdown maniacs
There was once institutional racism isn America…There no longer is. You really aren’t that important and you are creating the problems you think you are fighting.
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Without a question of a doubt. Very well stated.
I’d take it a step further though, we need to always seek it out and question it and ourselves. It isnt something that we fix, per se, but something that we should always reevaluate and revisit.
I’ve always assumed at some point in my life, I’ll be the minority. More than likely I will towards the end. My kids and any offspring they have, will definitely be.
So a town with a greater percent of it’s population than the percent of Black Americans?
This is what’s frustrating about today’s liberals.
The answer (or at least a huge piece of the puzzle) is staring them in the face and they refuse to accept it because it’s not meltdown worthy for them and THEY have to be responsible for improving it for their own self worth. They have to blame/milk/save…And accountability is never the answer.
And when I say accountability I don’t mean every black lacks accountability, nor do I say that with any malice towards them…I’ve never seen “color” in my life. My malice is towards extreme progressives and the media for milking narratives over accountability. The accountability must be taken on by EVERY mother/father who decide to raise/leave a child without a father figure…Sure it can be done, but the numbers are stacked against them, regardless of color.
And you can build upon it.
Who replaces the 80% of fathers? Mothers, grandmothers, and aunties usually.
So many of these youth grow up only knowing the feminine/maternal side of nurturing. They are usually defensive and over aggressive because that’s what they are taught from an early age.
Only a man can teach his son patience, humility, and strength, the way a man is supposed to behave.
I mean, it’s just a wow. 80%. We could spend a year talking about that. I just…just don’t know. Whatever the reasons, they certainly aren’t good